Friendship Star

Meeting Location: West Freeway Church of Christ

1900 S. Las Vegas Trail Fort Worth, TX 76108

President: Lynda McGee 817-343-9124

lyndamcgee@sbcglobal.net

Email: FortWorthQG@gmail.com
Website: www.fwqg.org
Location: PO Box 121942, Fort Worth, TX 76121
Phone: -------
Facebook: facebook.com/FortWorthQuiltGuild

June 18, 2024. Social 6pm. Meeting starts at 6:30pm.

Board Meetings are the last Thursday of the Month.

The location for meetings for this year will be at Lynda's house or via Zoom.

If you have something that needs to be brought to the attention of the Board, or you would like to discuss the issue in person, please contact a Board Member.

Board Meetings are open to all but only board members can vote at the meetings.

I’m back. I spent the last several months in Austin, caring for my new grandson (over 5 months old now). I will miss them…but I’m glad to be home. I’ve missed my bed, my sewing room, my friends and most of all my husband. So, time to get back to normal.

The quilt show is less than 2 months away! So it’s time to finish and prep those quilt entries. It’s also time to sign up for classes (please have a look while there are still openings). And definitely sign up to volunteer. The links are in the NTQF section below. Remember it takes a lot of people to make this show great.

See ya at the June meeting.

Lynda

June 2024 Program

Sharon is an award-winning quilter, teacher and entrepreneur, successfully running Country Collectibles and Sharon's Quilt Depot retail stores. After retiring from the retail business, Sharon became the co-owner of Quilt Ideas with her husband Loren.

June Workshop on Saturday, June 22, 2024; 9:00am – 3:00pm. We will be making a Barn Quilt using Crayons & Embroidery with a Barn Quilt in Summer pattern.

Join us with Sharon Wilhelm to make your barn quilt picture on a nice sized quilt block. Sharon will guide us in using Crayons to create a barn quilt picture.

Sharon also has patterns for the 4 seasons, and other patterns in the series to allow you to make any size quilt project. Patterns available at the workshop.

For more information about Sharon, see Quilt Ideas. Stop by the Program desk to sign up and pay for your Workshop. Workshop is $35 for members and $45. for non-members.

WORKSHOP NOTE! I goofed up when giving the pattern out for those who signed up. The Pattern is $7.00 and if you have not paid for the pattern yet, this needs to be dropped off this month at the Program table! Thank you... Dorene

JULY REMINDER: Don't forget to get working on our July Jellyroll CHallenge. YOU are the program in July, and we are looking for your quilts to show.

Strip Quilts and any others are going to be featured. To enter yours in the July Program, please see the Show & Tell desk for a July form. Bring a few quilts. Let's make this a fantastic program! We will need a write up of the Pattern, when made, for who etc. and we will let you tell us the information in a small 3-5 min. per quilt.

Join us for Ice Cream Sundays and a game of Left, Right Center to try for Red, White and Blue Strips. PLEASE bring 5 strips to play or purchase them for 1.00 each at the meeting.

We are at 65 members with a few still committed to renewing their membership. If you have any friends who have yet to renew, invite them to renew. Dues are $30 per year or $25 per year if 65 or over. Looking forward to seeing you all at the meeting.

May attendance 33 Members and 2 visitors.

Membership Committee
Shelley Clauss 817-994-0195. shelleyclauss@gmail.com
Barbara Hughes. 903-926-3581. hughesb@eastex.net

The theme this year is IT'S A BEACHY LIFE.

Quilt entries are now closed. We should have quilt totals at the June meeting.

We will be selling T-shirts at the meeting, $18 each.

We are also selling tickets to the show. $12 each. Remember, we have 65 tickets that make us 100% of the profit. So any tickets we don’t sell is money thrown away.

Now is the time to sign up for volunteering. There are Guild volunteers. These are all the spots that benefit us: quilt drop off & pick up, setup/take down, bag check, mini auction, scribes, t-shirt sales.

And there are EXPO volunteers: classroom assistant, info desk, greeter, studio spucer, set-up assistant, tear-down assistant, white glove display gallery.

Ann Houpt will be handling volunteers for the FWQG booth.

NECESSARY NTQF LINKS…

For Junior entries

https://www.sewingexpo.com/Events/Dallas-TX/NTQF-Junior-Entry-2024

For Mini quilts entry form

https://www.sewingexpo.com/Events/Dallas-TX/Mini-Quilt-Auction-Entry-Form-2024

For EXPO volunteers

https://www.sewingexpo.com/AmbassadorApplication.aspx

Sign up genius – for Guild volunteers

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080A4DAAA62FA0F94-49976383-north/3586834

Mini Quilt Auction

Please bring your mini quilt to the meeting. This is the last month to turn them in. Be sure to register it at https://www.sewingexpo.com/Events/Dallas-TX/Mini-Quilt-Auction-Entry-Form-2024.

Jonquele Jones

I just wanted to thank everyone for the donations that keep coming in.

Beautiful and useful items have been donated.

Please finish whatever you're working on and get it turned in to me

so I can get things priced and decide how to best display things.

Only 2 meetings left for the gathering of things to sell.

We will all benefit with wonderful programs if we do well in the booth.

Thank you, Ann Houpt, Booth Co-ordinator

Raffle Quilt

Let’s keep selling those tickets for our raffle quilt. This is a big fundraiser for us, and we only do it once every two years.

We also need members to volunteer to take the quilt somewhere and sell tickets. This can be another guild, a shop, a retreat. Anywhere you are willing to go. No one wants to do all of this alone but one meeting: one day, maybe with a friend???? Is there another guild you are a member of? Is there a guild you have wanted to visit? This is the way. Ask one of the board members if you don’t know how to contact someone to visit.

Thank you so much to Shelley Clauss who has agreed to handle the logistics for the quilt. So contact Shelley if you would like to take the quilt somewhere and sell tickets.

Send Sunshine and Shadows to Anne Houpt : annhoupt@aol.com

Time is passing way too fast. Can it be June already. Summer is just around the corner and so much to do and so little time to get it done. Thank you to everyone that brought refreshments to the May guild meeting. Also thank you to everyone that helped get everything set up and your help in getting things cleaned up after the meeting.

June Birthdays

6-04. Karen Wiseman

6-13. Marilyn Smith

6-23. Wanda Edmunds

6-28 Judy Turner

Marilyn Smith

Hospitality Committee

EMBROIDERY BEE

We continue to rotate our meeting site. New members are welcome

Contact Wanda Edmunds or Sarah Tutt for more information.

FRAYED KNOTS

We meet on the second Tuesday evening of the month at Jonquele's.

TIGHT KNOTS --

One of the most fun parts of belonging to a Guild is getting to know other quilters. But, there aren’t many opportunities to actually get to SEW and learn from one another, except in a bee. Most of the guild bees have been around for many years and don’t have openings for many newcomers. If you want to get know more of your fellow members, start a new bee!

General Guidelines

• Start with the people sitting near you at Guild or advertise in the bee section of the newsletter, or on the FB page.
• A place to meet: dining room table, living room, playroom, apartment clubhouse, nearby church… You may want to rotate hosting among those with enough space.
• Monthly meeting time for 1.5-4 hours. Some groups may also have periodic all-day project days or retreats.
• Some groups organize around a common interest: appliqué, modern, art, charity projects, while some are based on proximity.
• Start simply and see how the group’s dynamics play out through time. There are lots of activity ideas online.

Shelley has already begun to take reservations for the 2025 retreat, which will be April 3-6, 2025.

Bev Ramsey was a charter member of the guild, a past president, a teacher and a friend. We lost her way too early. The Bev Ramsey fund was set up to help those in need enjoy the things she loved very much, retreats and workshops.

Quilts of Valor

Thanks to all the members who have been sewing blocks and entire quilt tops and sewing binding on some of the quilts. All your continued help is greatly appreciated.

Please bring any blocks you have completed to the next meeting. There are a couple of quilt kits that were picked up at the February meeting that need to be turned in. We have backing fabric for them, and I will be happy to quilt them or find another volunteer to do the quilting.

Just a reminder: Recommended size for QOV’s 60”x80” (minimum:55”x65”; maximum: 72”x90”)

Thanks again

for all your hard work!

Cecilia Buckholz

QOV Group Leader

Cbuckholz1@gmail.com

817-480-7606

Lovies are used for preemie babies and their mother's so they can become familiar with each other's scent.

If you would like to make one (or 100) take two pieces of 14" square fabric - one cotton, and one flannel. Sew them right sides together, leaving a gap to turn. Turn, then topstitch around the entire piece.

Beverly Peterson collects them at Guild meetings to give to Cook Children's. Cook's is always very grateful for the gifts.

June Donations

Chris Tomich made three NICU quilts and eight crocheted afghans which were delivered to JPS.

Robbie Sheffy made 40 baby quilts which she brought to the home of Grace Stroud for pick up and delivery to JPS. This represented a year’s worth of sewing for this prolific quilter.

Thanks to both of these ladies. JPS is always so glad to receive donations. Hope we will all be inspired to make a NICU or regular baby quilt to donate.

Submitted by Judi Janes and Carolyn Hughes-NICU Co-Chairpersons

NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) Quilts

One of our community service projects is making NICU quilts for John Peter Smith Hospital. NICU quilts are 36” x 36” prewashed cotton quilts. These are placed on the incubators in the intensive care unit and become the property of the baby/baby’s family. As some of you may know, the Tight Knots Quilt Bee makes NICU quilts each year as one of their community service projects. Maybe your bee would consider doing the same.

JPS has requested other items for their patients:

Baby Items:

Receiving blankets and baby quilts – of all sizes

Layettes and Isolettes no smaller than 52”x56”

Cozy Cub Slipcover (tubular coverlet) See the link below for a sample of this item. 40 inches long

9 inches – circumference for small

11 inches – circumference for large

CozyCub–Dandle.LionMedical www.dandlelionmedical.com

Adult Items:

These items are mainly used for patients undergoing chemotherapy at the JPS cancer center and geriatric patients.

Adult quilts or blankets (quilted or fleece)

Ostomy bag covers

Small heart-shaped pillows for breast cancer patients to place under their arms after surgery

Submitted by: Judi Janes and Carolyn Hughes – NICU Co-Chairpersons

More information on these is on the following website:

https://www.jpshealthnet.org/community/volunteeropportunities/other-opportunities-to-serve

Quilt Guild Meeting

Yvette Richey called the meeting to order at 6:40p.m.

No comments or questions regarding April Minutes.

The minutes were accepted and approved.

Treasurer’s Report – filed for audit.

NTQF-Jean- so far

only 100 total quilts have been entered.

This 100 is from all the Guilds.

The FWQG has only entered 7 so far.

Everyone is encouraged to get their quilts entered.

Carpooling and volunteers are needed for the quilt show.

If interested, please let us know or bring it up at the next

meeting.

Programs: Janet spoke about the upcoming

June program. Barn quilts with Crayons.

The class is $35.00 plus $7.00 for the pattern.

Program– Minimal Design – Maximum Impact with David Owen Hastings. David presented a Zoom lecture on Modern quilts with modern quilting designs. The links for his presentation are provided

on our website.

Refreshment Break

Jonquele – Reminded everyone to bring their Mini Quilts. Time is approaching towards the deadline to enter them. Please bring all completed Mini quilts to the June meeting.

Membership:

33 Members and 2 visitors.

Birthdays –were celebrated and Happy Birthday to all.

Show and Tell – Several ladies showed off their quilts.

Retreat report – Grace talked about the past retreat and what fun everyone had. Encouraged everyone to think about coming to the 2025 Retreat. Shelly would be accepting payments toward the 2025 retreat if anyone is interested in an “installment plan”.

Lovies – Are needed and encourage everyone to make some and bring to next meeting.

QOV – Block kits are available.

Meeting Adjourned at 8:27pm

Due to formatting issues, the Treasurer's report is attached as a PDF and must be downloaded to be read.

Board

President- Lynda McGee 817-343-9124 lyndamcgee@sbcglobal.net

President- ElectVP : NEEDED

Vice- President VP Programs: Dorene Joyce 817-847-1687 dorenegaye.joyce@gmail.com

Janet Swords 817-551-700 3 janetswords@outlook.om

Secretary: Becky Alrubaiie alrubaiie1@hotmail.com

Treasurer- Meri Cozart 817-657-4859 cozarts@sbcglabal.net
Member at Large- Dave Beers 817-666-8404 quiltsbydave@gmail.com

Member at Large-Yvette Richey richey57yr@gmsil.com

Past President/Parliamentarian - Wanda Edmunds 817 682-9101 dooleymac@gmail.com

Committees

Greeter Barbara Dumas and Needed

Hospitality Marilyn Smith 817-917-9294 marilynsmith1934@gmail.com

NICU Judi Janes judi.janes@yahoo.com

Carolyn Hughes hughes1668@att.net

HUGS Mary Lou Nelson ron.marylou@sbcglobal.net

Lovies Beverly Peterson 817-346-0321 bpete1900@yahoo.com

Membership Barbara Hughes 903-926-3581 hughesb@eastex.net

Shelley Clauss 817-994-0195 shelley.clauss@att.net

Newsletter Thayne Rooney 817-223-3982 Rooney.thayne@gmail.com

Quilt Show Rep Jeane Starkey jeane@2barcembroidery.com

Quilt Show Rep Needed

Quilt Show t-shirts Shelley Clauss 817-994-0195 shelley.clauss@att.net

Quilt Show Minis Jonquele Jones 817-266-0103 jonquele@flash.net

Quilt Show Booth Ann Houpt 817-689-7678 annhoupt@aol.com

Raffle Quilt Shari Hollis shollis_13@yahoo.com

Jennifer Hollis hollisthreads@gmail.com

Retreats Shelley Clauss 817-994-0195 shelley.clauss@att.net

Show N Tell Alice Clayton

Sunshine / Shadows: Ann Houpt 817-689-7678 annhoupt@aol.com

WebMaster Dorene Joyce 817-995-5740 dorenegaye.joyce@gmail.com

Smore Administrator Shelley Clauss 817-994-0195 shelley.clauss@att.net

Saginaw Thursday Quilters meets every Thursday from 9:00 am to 3:30 pm at Joyce Spindor Community Center, 620 Park Center Blvd, Saginaw TX 76179.
We hand quilt for our members and clients. We take a snack break at 10:00, hosted by members for a month at a time.
Once a month we celebrate members’ birthdays. On third Thursday we have a themed luncheon.
Contact Kay Lotz, guild member, at 817-946-8286 (leave a message please) for more information.

Texas Quilt Museum, LaGrange, Texas

Spring/Summer Exhibits at the Museum
Celebrate Rodeo Winners and Fiber Excellence!

Just like the upcoming Texas weather, things are heating up at the Texas Quilt Museum with the installation of two new exhibits. The Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo Prizewinners 2024 and Fiber Art Now: Excellence in Fibers III will be on display from May 2-August 31, 2024.

Check out their website http://www.texasquiltmuseum.org

We would love to put your advertisement in the newsletter. Personal item or business.

Short text -- $5 members, $10 non-members

Half page with one picture -- $10 members, $15 non-members

We accept ads from Members and local merchants.

After working with Smore for a while, we have run into limitations of the formatting available to us. It is easiest if the information is sent either as text or JPGPNG pictures. We can attach pdf documents to the newsletter, but they will appear as links and the reader must download them to their device in order to read them (easier if done from a laptop/desktop). DOC files which contain text only will be copied into the newsletter, but some of the formatting may be lost.